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Tue 01 Jan 2009Green Party wants Guantánamo Bay detainee to be resettled in Ireland
THE GREEN Party has said that the State should accept for resettlement an Uzbek national who has been detained at Guantánamo Bay for the past seven years.
Ciarán Cuffe, the Coalition partner’s justice spokesman, said there was a strong case for accepting 30-year-old exonerated detainee Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov, who was living as a refugee in Afghanistan when he was captured in 2001.
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